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Boredom can be a real exercise killer.  Instead of setting aside time to do exercise, do the opposite by squeezing exercise into what you’re already doing.  Here are some tips for pimping up your workouts.

Resistance Bands

Keep a set of Bodylastics resistance bands next to your couch or recliner while you watch TV.  During commercial break get up and do some reps.  Out of a 1-hour show, about 17 minutes of it is commercials.  By the time a show is over, you’ll have worked out your entire body.  Each set comes with a manual of over 140 top gym exercises.  Plus, you can get the optional circuit training DVD.  Hook up a portable DVD player or laptop with the DVD queued up.  When the commercial comes on, spark up the DVD and start working out. 

Treadmill, Elliptical, Stationary Bike

If you’re doing work on your laptop, strap it onto a treadmill, elliptical, or stationary bike with a SurfShelf.  It allows you to use a laptop or portable DVD player on any other piece of exercise equipment that has a console.  I use it to catch up on old episodes of Lost and NCIS.  I also like to read all the e-book downloads I have.  When your concentration is focused on the laptop, you forget you’re walking.  Before you know it you’ve already gone a mile or more. 

Dumbells

Just like keeping some exercise bands close at hand while watching TV, you can do the same thing with dumbbells to get some resistance exercise.  You can go with a single set of dumbbells or the super cool adjustable SelectTech™ ones from Bowflex®.  With just the turn of a dial you can automatically change the resistance without fiddling around with weight plates.

Free Online Exercise

As of November 30, 2009, Blake Kassel, the creator and owner of the Bodylastics resistance bands, is conducting live resistance bands workouts online…for free.  He could easily turn it into a members only site and charge an access fee, but he’s not.  In fact, while I’m sitting here typing this, he’s online right now.  Man, what a workout!  The site will soon have live online workout programs for women, teens, and I can’t wait to see this one, a show for the kids on Saturday and Sunday mornings.  If you miss any of the shows, they’ll be recorded so you can watch them at a later time.  What a value!

If you’re trying to lose weight fast you already know that exercise plays a very important part in that, however eating right is also critical to the big picture and shouldn’t be overlooked.

Many fad and gimmicky diets are high in animal proteins and low in nutrient dense foods. They’re slowly killing you. How is it that a nation as rich as the United States has some of the unhealthiest and sickest people in the world, yet poor farmers in remote areas of China are some of the healthiest? The difference is in the food they eat.

I urge you to get Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s book “Eat To Live”. Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss It was a real eye opener for me. It’s not some goofball diet plan that has you eating grapefruit all the ding dong day. While it does get on the geeky side of science in explaining how food works in your body and why, I personally think that’s an absolutely necessary part of learning how to eat right. I’m the type of person that doesn’t accept information at face value. I need the underlying details if I’m going to understand and learn.

It’s like a mother telling her child not to touch the stove, but doesn’t explain why he shouldn’t touch it. Without understanding the reason behind her request, the child will touch the stove to find out…the hard way. Had she told him that the stove is hot and will burn and blister his tender pink skin, he would not have touched the stove.

Food is like that, too. We’re told by the “experts” to eat lean meats. Truth be told, the human body wasn’t meant to eat other animals. Eating meat gives us cancer, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes and more. Why? Read the book. It will explain it all.